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• General Concept and Requirements for Asset Management Training Courses - Technical Report

  

  During PIARC work cycle of 2011-2015, the comprehensive Asset Management Manual was developed and presented as a draft version at the 25th World Road Congress 2015 in Seoul, Korea. The first full on-line version of the manual was made available in 2017. Asset Management Manual is available on the PIARC [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 64
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R38EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-583-6
• Bridge Design Toward Improved Inspection And Maintenance - Technical Report

  

  The principle of designing bridges while having in mind the future inspections and maintenance has often been overlooked in the past, when in the design stage greater emphasis was placed on firstly fulfilling just the "initial requirements" of the bridge – mainly structural safety and serviceability [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 98
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R37EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-574-4
• Best Practice Guide to Air Quality in Relation to Road Operations - Technical Report

  

  Air pollution linked to road transport has received significant political, media and public attention since the mid 2010s. However, despite improvements in vehicle efficiencies over past decades, emissions from vehicles still contribute significantly to concentrations of air pollutants above standards [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 171
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R31EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-566-9
• Ex-Post Evaluation of Road Projects - Technical Report

  

  Effective planning and policy development depend, in part, on the availability of suitable models for predicting the effects of project alternatives, and on an understanding of model limitations. A Swedish case study illustrates how the predictive models can be improved by incorporating the lessons [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 92
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R34EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-569-0
• Green Paving Solutions and Sustainable Pavement Materials - Technical Report

  

  This report summarizes the current state-of-the practice for sustainable pavement techniques and the incentives used to encourage their use. Green paving solutions were identified in addition to identification of barriers to their wider implementation. Information contained in this report is based on [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 58
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R32EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-567-6
• Journey Time and Travel Reliability - Technical Report

  

  Travel time reliability has been put by all stakeholders in the transport arena at the centre of attention: transport planners, operators and users agree on the need to take actions for more reliable transport systems. Although the framework is clear in terms of the stakeholders’ claims, the theoretical [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 92
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R35EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-570-6
• Reducing the Life Cycle Carbon Footprint of Pavements - Technical Report

  

  This report reviews innovations reported to reduce the carbon footprint of pavements and contains a critical review of the assessment of carbon footprint of pavements. There are numerous other environmental indicators for road pavements, but these were outside the scope of this report which focuses [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 64
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R33EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-568-3
• Traffic Noise – Best Practice Guide - Technical Report

  

  In recent years, knowledge about the health effects of traffic noise has grown substantially. Many studies have found that long-term exposure to traffic noise is associated with various health impacts such as sleep disturbance, cardiovascular disease and depression. While there remain knowledge gaps [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 214
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R36EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-571-3
• Damage and Deterioration Assessment Decision-Making for Highway Bridge Safety - Technical Report

  

  Bridge owners in most countries routinely assess bridge damage and deterioration to ensure the safety of the traveling public and appropriately manage the service life of a bridge. While in service, bridge owners discover damage or deterioration under two main circumstances. Firstly, damage or deterioration [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 66
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R28EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-562-1
• Refinement of PIARC’s International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure - Technical Report

  

  Climate change will have significant impacts on the design, construction, maintenance and operation of global road infrastructure. IPCC projections estimate that the Earth will become warmer, some regions will become wetter overall and some will become drier, sea levels will rise and storm surge height [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 66
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R30EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-577-5
• Road Safety Evaluations Based on Human Factors Method - Technical Report

  

  The objective of this report is to instruct responsible road authorities on how to evaluate road safety quality along roads in operation, coupling the well-known reactive approach, based on accident data analysis and high accident concentration sections (or black spots) identification and prioritization, [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 110
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R27EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-561-4
• Setting Credible Speed Limits - Case Studies Report

  

  This report of case studies on the topic of speed limits includes a series of implemented countermeasures or experimental proofs of concept to help improve the road safety in a specific location or area. PIARC didn´t work on specific speed issues in the past periods, therefore this report also contains [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 43
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R26EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-560-7
• Technical and Economic Considerations of Bridge Rehabilitation Methods - Technical Report

  

  Bridge owners who have to manage their bridge stock are concerned with bridge deficiencies. The main concerns are the degradation of bridge elements due to ageing, accident, and other factors. This is evaluated by the bridge condition index. But bridge owners also have to manage the evolution in the [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 92
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R29EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-563-8
• Adaptation Methodologies and Strategies to Increase the Resilience of Roads to Climate Change - Technical Report

  

  Climate Change is anticipated to have a significant impact on the design, construction, maintenance and operation of global road infrastructure. The IPCC Climate change projections indicate that the earth will become warmer, some regions will become wetter and some will become drier, sea levels will [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 104
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R25EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-558-4
• Framework on Measuring Effectiveness and Efficiency of Transport Administrations - Technical Report

  

  Around the world, governments and the communities that they serve are seeking to better understand if the services delivered by the public sector are meeting long term strategic objectives and the societal outcomes and needs of citizens. Public service organizations, including the transport sector, [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 43
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R22EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-551-5
• National Policies for Multi-Modal Freight Transport and Logistics - Technical Report

  

  In many countries around the world, national policies for logistics and freight transport are neglected or undervalued compared to passenger mobility and transport. Often, only some elements of freight transport policies are implemented. On the other hand, well-functioning logistics and freight transport [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 70
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R24EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-555-3
• Truck-Traffic on Highways for Sustainable, Safer and Higher Energy Efficient Freight Transport - Technical Report

  

  This report presents research and findings on management and operation of truck traffic on highways and motorways for efficient and environmentally friendly, safer and energy efficient freight transport. There are increasing concerns about the issues related to freight transport on highways and motorways, [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 61
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R23EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-553-9
• Abu Dhabi Roads InfrastructureConnecting Cultures and Enabling Economies

  

  From having no paved streets to building some of the world’s best, most modern, fully integrated and sustainable road networks and infrastructure, Abu Dhabi has undergone a remarkable transformation in the last 50 years.

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 4
  • PIARC Ref. : RR382-048
• Strategic Direction Reports: at the Heart of Topical Road Issues

  

  In this issue of our magazine, you will find a summary of the Strategic Direction Reports written by the Association’s five Theme Coordinators. The latter have contributed to steering Committees and Task Forces throughout the work cycle and, as members of the Strategic Plan Commission, they are a [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 1
  • PIARC Ref. : RR382-021
• Strategic Theme A - Management and Finance*

  

  There is renewed recognition of the need for road investment, especially for infrastructure maintenance, due to normal deterioration, several infrastructure failures and demands for new services such as autonomous vehicles. This comes together with the acknowledgement of the contribution that road transport [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 3
  • PIARC Ref. : RR382-022
• Strategic Theme B – Access and MobilityInnovative Transport Solutions to Optimize Access and Mobility

  

  Under “CASE” (Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Services, Electric) vision, the automobile industry is changing enormously. Road traffic management through state-of-the-art technologies of ICT and AI promotes traffic safety and smoothens road traffic. It is important to examine the impacts of these [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR382-025
• Strategic Theme C - Road Safety*

  

  United Nations General Assembly Resolution 64/2551 of March 2010 proclaimed 2011-2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety, with the objective of stabilising and then reducing the number of deaths worldwide due to road accidents. The resolution called on Member States to promote road safety, including [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR382-031
• Strategic Theme D - InfrastructureThe Untold Story: Infrastructure Preservation

  

  Road Agencies allocate tremendous resources and manpower to maintain their road networks. While most managers concentrate efforts on solving each problem as it arises, in reality very little attention and funds are devoted to communicating to citizens the vital work being carried out to maintain efficient [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 6
  • PIARC Ref. : RR382-037
• Strategic Theme E – Climate Change, Environment and DisastersThe Progress of the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Measures in the Transport Sector Following the Paris Agreement

  

  Strategic Theme E - Climate Change, Environment and Disasters, from PIARC’s Strategic Plan 2016-2019 establishes the following Technical Committees and Working Groups: Technical Committee E.1 - Adaptation Strategies/Resiliency  Adaptation strategies for increasing resiliency Refinement of the [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 5
  • PIARC Ref. : RR382-043
• Evaluating the Transformation of Transport Administrations - Technical Report

  

  Road and transport administrations across the world face a range of pressures to change the way they plan, organise and deliver services. These pressures vary in nature, for example from changes in the demographic and customer base, the introduction of disruptive technologies, evolving economic, social [...]

  • Date : 2019
  • Pages : 116
  • PIARC Ref. : 2019R21EN
  • ISBN : 978-2-84060-547-8